Words and sentences intersperse and alternate with the sounds of gongs and cymbals throughout this fairytale poem like the waves of the sea thrown against coastal boulders.The rhythms of the mu-yus and drums burst with the festivity of marriage firecrackers. Handbells and bamboo angkloungs chink like drops of rain or a waterfall. One would think that the Beethoven's Pastoral and Debussy's The Sea have suddenly been metamorphosed by human voices into music no instrument could replace. Vocal expressions are carved in each of the languages like paddles for the ears, letting the listener's imagination navigate adventurously through this musical comedy while awaiting the visual enrichment of a stage adaptation.

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"Song of une NOYADE et LE Shadow"

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The title "Song of UNE NOYADE et LE Shadow" is rather different in Chinese. In Chinese "UNE NOYADE" is a naiad. Song is translated by "love", but in Chinese the word love can be written in five different ideograms according to the meaning and depending on the heart's situation in the ideogram.

TCHEN Gi-Vane has not chosen the first ideogram where the heart is in the center, nor the third where the heart is to the left, but the second form where the ideogram heart is at the bottom and the speech ideogram is in the center. It is an entirely different word from the first where the heart ideogram is in the center and lacking the speech ideogram. For the first love ideogram there have been seven evolutions according to
historical periods.


The so-called simplification of characters has removed or snatched the heart of the first ideogram, as well as that of the fourth where the heart is to the left and of the fifth where the heart is at the bottom.